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Puya berteronianaTurquoise Puya. From the mountains of Chile. Photographed in a private garden in Berkeley, CA.
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Jinotega, Nicaragua
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Cartago Province, Costa Rica
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Native to eastern Brazil. There are cultivars with colored leaves. Denver Botanical Gardens.
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Bolivar, Ecuador
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A giant bromeliad from eastern Brazil, just starting to send up its inflorescence. Lotusland, Montecito, California
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Society Islands Airport, les du Vent, Polynsie Franaise
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Last flowers of a drooping bromeliad. Found in tropical rainforests from Costa Rica to Peru, photo from Omaere Etnobotanical Garden, Puyo, Ecuador.
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A reddish form of this widespread species, exhibiting edible black berries. Lotusland, Montecito, California.
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Native to northern Peru. Photo from Matthaei Gardens, Ann Arbor.
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The Amazon Zebra Plant is native to the lowlands of Ecuador and adjacent parts of Colombia and Peru. The striking leaves have made it popular in gardens, such as here at Denver Botanical.
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A bromeliad known only from Mexico, here on a Thin-leaf Pine in the Sierra Maihuatlan.
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Las Ollas Abajo, Panama, Panama
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Zurich, Canton of Zurich, Switzerland
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Philippines
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Barbuda, Antigua and Barbuda
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Of Brazilian extraction. Photo from KEW Gardens, London.
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It belongs on the coast of central Chile, but is here rooted at the Botanical Gardens of San Francisco.
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Santo Domingo, Chiapas, Mexico
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Cayenne, French Guiana
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A species ranging from eastern Bolivia to southeastern Brazil. San Diego Botanical Gardens.